Interesting pop quiz

[Alan Dayley]

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I found this question an interesting exercise to answer.  It is a real
question that came up the other day.

You are logged in as root in a bash shell.  You issued the following
commands:

mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
cd /

Your goal is to copy your current file and directory structure onto the
sda1 partition.  You can issue one of two commands.

A. cp -avx * /mnt
B. cp -avx / /mnt

Quiz: Describe the difference between the results you will get from each
of the above commands, A and B.  Which will accomplish the stated goal?

(Behold, the power of the Linux command line!)

Alan
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